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What over a century of ice data can tell us about the Great Lakes’ future
Using old records, scientists created a new dataset on how ice coverage has shifted since 1897. Researchers are already using it to study a declining fish species.
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Overshoot: The world is hitting point of no return on climate
With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could not be reversed.
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![A woman wearing a headlamp holds a piece of coral in a huge tub]()
![A woman wearing a headlamp holds a piece of coral in a huge tub]()
Inside the historic effort to keep the Great Barrier Reef alive
Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really matters.
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![Finneas and Billie Eilish on stage with 3 other people at the Grammys]()
![Finneas and Billie Eilish on stage with 3 other people at the Grammys]()
Billie Eilish, stolen land, and the climate cost of America’s dispossession
Returning Indigenous land won't destroy civilization, it could save it.
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The UK quit coal. But is burning Louisiana’s trees any better?
How Britain's new "green energy" depends on cutting down forests in the Deep South.
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The US lost $35B in clean energy projects last year
A new report indicates that Trump administration policies led to billions of dollars in canceled investment and tens of thousands of lost jobs.
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What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm
Agrihoods reimagine urban living by putting food, not cars, at the center of the community.
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The US government says it is falling short on its legal duties to tribal nations
A new government report finds that federal agencies are unprepared to expand shared stewardship with tribes as climate pressures intensify.
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The Olympics are ditching PFAS waxes — and the ‘ridiculous’ speed they gave skiers
After years of concern over so-called “fluoro” waxes, the Milan Cortina Games will be the first Olympics without them.
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Vegan fine dining had a moment. Now it’s over.
As high-end restaurants reintroduce meat, young vegan cooks are figuring out what’s next.
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Indigenous concerns surface as Trump calls for seabed mining in Alaskan waters
“It really feels like another false solution.”
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![The Montezuma Wetlands of Solano County are seen in an aerial photograph.]()
![The Montezuma Wetlands of Solano County are seen in an aerial photograph.]()
Inside the polarizing plan to stash carbon in a California wetland
A proposal to store carbon dioxide deep below a Bay Area wetland is testing how — and where — California pursues climate solutions.
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